Ruffled Neck Kercheif

Here is my finished "Ruffled Neck Kerchief" from boutique knits. I really loved this pattern, it made me love chevron lace.

drinking lots of tea

On my fifth cup of tea the boiling water reminded me that I wanted to try and shrink my acorn hat. So I filled a sauce pot with water till it began to boil I placed the hat in the pot poking it under the boiling water with tongs. I let it soak for 4min. I poured out the water in the sink and with the tongs I placed the hat on a folded in half towel waiting on the floor. It was still steaming, so carefully I laid the scalloped edging out flat. The hat didn't seam to have shrunk much. I think it got larger... So I'm filling up my spaghetti pot this time, the sauce pot seamed to be a little small. Ok so I let the hat boil in the pot for 20 minutes. It didn't shrink at all. I guess Lion Brand fishermen's wool doesn't shrink. Well now I know. This time when I poured out the hot water in the sink. I have a double sink, so I poured out the water in one and had dilled up the other side with cold water. And placed the hat into the cold water after pouring the water out. I squeezed the water out being sure not to rink it out & then hung it up to dry. When searching for info on shrinking knits I found this wool crafting.

I added the acorn rib pattern around the edge. I decreased the rim from 106 to 81 stitches. And now it is a dread hat.

Nacho Libre meets sock monkey

Yay, OK I'm really proud of this one. I started it yesterday and finished knitting it today. I guessed it would have taken me a week to knit. It is the "Lucha Libre" pattern (a Mexican wrestler mask slash ski mask for winter) from the book "Son of Stitch N' Bitch"(Debbie Stroller). I used size 4 and 6 double pointed needles(I knit it in the round even though the pattern is flat). The yarn i used was the lion brand yarn, fishermen's wool, in colors "natural" & "nature's brown".

posted about finishing this on craftster

brown baby hat

This is the baby wool hat pattern from the book "easy baby knits"(claire montgomerie) in size 6-12 months. In the book the pattern is to be knitted flat and then sewn together to make the hat. I decided to knit it in the round and do a knit2 purl2 rib around the bottom instead of the k1 p1 rib in the pattern and i didn't add a pom-pom because it is for a baby boy (Christmas present). I used lion brand yarn, fishermen's wool in "nature's brown". In the book the pictures show the hat to be fairly loose on the baby's head but the hat also fits my 7 year old brothers head, just being a little short.